Martin v. Bacon’s Empirical Analysis
1905
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently July 1958 · most notably Stewart v. Ramsay (1916), Burroughs v. Cocke & Willis (1916)
21 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Wilson v. Donaldson · In re Cannon · People ex rel. Campau v. Judge of Superior Court
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““And the reason [for the exemption]—the main reason—is very potential, so far as our country is concerned. There are many states, * * * and a man who is required to go from one to the other, either as a witness or as a party to a suit, should not be pursued by writ while abroad, instead of being sued at his own residence, otherwise, every one as is stated in many of those opinions, would avoid as far as possible being subjected thousands of miles away to suits of this character.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Biedler
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.